Dr. Sonya Lynn Heath MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Sonya Heath is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Heath specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Va Commonwealth Univ, Med Coll of Va Sch of Med, Richmond Va 2000
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Therapeutic immunization strategies for HIV infection.
- HIV-specific CD8+ T cells from elite controllers are primed for survival.
- Immune suppression by neutrophils in HIV-1 infection: role of PD-L1/PD-1 pathway.
- Connecting the dots: could microbial translocation explain commonly reported
- Inhibition of the lymphocyte metabolic switch by the oxidative burst of human neutrophils.
- Identifying Symptom Patterns in People Living With HIV Disease.
- Evolution and Escalation of an Emergency Department Routine, Opt-out HIV Screening and Linkage-to-Care Program.
- DNA/MVA Vaccination of HIV-1 Infected Participants with Viral Suppression on
- Increased glucose transporter-1 expression on intermediate monocytes from HIV-infected women with subclinical cardiovascular disease.
- Increased Natural Killer Cell Activation in HIV-Infected Immunologic Non-Responders Correlates with CD4+ T Cell Recovery after Antiretroviral Therapy and Viral Suppression.
- Brief Report: IL-1β Levels Are Associated With Chronic Multisite Pain in People Living With HIV.
- Pathological Role of Anti-CD4 Antibodies in HIV-Infected Immunologic Nonresponders Receiving Virus-Suppressive Antiretroviral Therapy.
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